[Art] certainly lives up to his username. His Rubidium-standard atomic real-time clock is surely an example of hardware art. The substrate is a collection of point-to-point soldered perfboard modules.

Doomsday Clock announcement will be held on January 28th in Washington, DC. The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board will ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

But the development of such clocks has been challenging as thorium-229, one of the isotopes used in nuclear clocks, is rare, radioactive, and extremely costly to acquire in the su ...

There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS ...

Solid-state clock Illustration of how thorium atoms are vaporized (bottom) and then deposited in a thin film on the substrate ...

In 2001, Japanese physicist Hidetoshi Katori proposed a new type of atomic clock that only loses ... showing in 2020 that clocks set on the observation deck at 450 metres ticked faster by 4/ ...

A team of Chinese researchers has reportedly developed the most precise portable atomic clock ever. Small and rigid by design ...

Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka ... the clock winds up and runs for about an hour.

and smaller size mean its production could be more easily scaled up to make smaller, less expensive, more portable atomic clocks. Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a ...

but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing relativity to navigating down the road. Atomic clocks, such as those used on the Global Navigation Satellite System network, ...

A new high-tech atomic clock has been developed by scientists at the top-secret Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). It is expected to be a leap forward for intelligence, surveillance ...